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6 Oct 2024 07:05:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Won an animation contest  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 15 Dec 2014 08:39:04
Message: <548ee478$1@news.povray.org>

> "jhu" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>> "gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>>> The technical society for my field,  ISTFA (failure analysis), has now twice
>>> held a Video Contest. The prize is a free registration (~$950) to the next
>>> conference.  There were 700 attendes at the actual conference, but only 7
>>> bothered to enter the contest. No one else did "animation": it was mostly video
>>> recording of metallurgical processes or FIB tools picking up TEM lamellae.
>>>
>>> Last year I got second place with a povray animation; this year I got first
>>> place with a stop-motion animation done with clay. I think the key feature is
>>> perfect matching of sound with the action. But for that, I actually used povray,
>>> by first making a 6 fps animation with povray-printed numbers, one per frame.
>>> Then I know how many frames I need to relay each sentence.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI0PPfTAdCc
>>
>> Very nice. If no one else did animation, that means you win by default?
>
> No, there were six other entries.  Most were video footage of tools that make
> samples, like this one which was last year's winner:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYyttv7QHwo
>
> And while I'm pasting, here's my povray animation from last year:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgtXRQ8Py4U
>
>
> Steven, the CMOS technology is still very much in use.  Voltage Contrast is just
> one way of finding defects.
>

On a related note, are you part of the folks who were just sold as slaves?


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